Cell phones: They use a rare mineral called coltan, which mainly comes from Congo via unsound mining methods. Plus, the phones have toxic chemicals that can pollute upon disposal.

Concrete: The way it's manufactured is "carbon intensive." Worse, all that concrete in cities keeps rain water from entering the soil, which means it ends up in municipal systems and often overwhelms them.

Public parks: As weird as it sounds, these parks require lots of watering, fertilizer, and maintenance and may actually contribute to climate change.

Pets: Rover "contributes as much greenhouse gas to the atmosphere as a large car."

Single biggest threat to human species is human rights to over-reproduction which should be limited. As long as we go on over-reproducing like so many human-lemmings to have very high birth rates of 3X,4X,5X,6X,7X,8X,9X,10X,11X,12X,13X,14X,15X,16X,17X,18X,19X,20X, got the picture?this will determine outcome of our future by exhausting all sustainable life support systems in our world we call Earth Our world is a thin shell only 2 miles thk, 4000mi radius, so our world is NOT FLAT To state in the bible "to go forth and multiply" is one of these- IGNORANT, SELFISH or TOTALLY EVIL for high birth rates ensure high death rates will occur downstream in time where we traditionally resort to a FINAL SOLUTION of GENOCIDE- Google "Solar Mortality Theory" to see scientific reasoning for this- and WHY genocide occurs AGAIN & AGAIN in Modern History since 1796 like clockwork every three generations when the 4th arrives and 2nd retires leaving ONLY ONE to support other 3 aged, newborn and retirees. Wake up folks and smell the coffeee- the FACTS OF LIFE on the planet- Recognize that we have actually met the enemy and he is US, we are our own worse enemys- Those responsible for fomenting policys of multi-birth families are the REAL culprits behind ALL of mnakinds problems. Adolph? Stalin? Saddam? minor league compared to the POPE and religious right who ensure genocide WILL OCCUR. Proof- Don't hear of genocide in unpopulated areas like Sahara and Greenland- D u H

MiSSKT

Apr 23, 2010 10:03 PM CDT

I have news for you.. Everything can and will kill you who cares?! Have fun while you can you only live once!!

bewilderbeast1

Apr 23, 2010 6:44 AM CDT

The saddest thing is we WILL NOT respond until we absolutely are forced to. It's like people on a spaceship who see something burning up all the oxygen on board, yet arguing about whether to put out the fire or roast marshmallows on it. For a start: All we have to do with our parks is REDUCE THE AMOUNT OF MOWING!! Plant less lawn and let indgenous plant growth take over. But we won't. "I like the look of sweeping lawns" will carry the day. "The White House has always looked that way" will win. Let the planet go to hell, but don't try and change me.